Meet MALALA Yousafzai, the brave and brilliant activist who survived being shot in the head aged 15 to keep fighting for all girls to receive and education.
Find out:
- How an earthquake literally rocked her world,
- Why everyone forgot her twelfth birthday
- And how she became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Get to know MALALA on First Name terms.
This is Book 5 in the First Names Series. See all First Names books here.
Lisa Williamson was born and grew up in Nottingham. Following a degree in drama, she worked as an actor for over a decade before writing her debut novel, The Art of Being Normal. Lisa loves writing about characters who are different from her and Mia Campbell-Richardson definitely fits the bill. She's everything Lisa wasn't at 16 - loud, daring and uber confi
More about Lisa WilliamsonMike Smith graduated with distinction from the MA Children's Book Illustration course at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University. He is a winner of the illustrious Macmillan Prize for Children's Picture Book Illustration. When he was a child, Mike's favourite illustrators were Herge, Charles Schultz and Richard Scarry, all of whom still influence h
More about Mike Smith
